“The mark of a good book for me is a book that I can’t hold onto because I give away every copy I own over and over again,” says Zackary Drucker, the transgender performance artist whose work explores gender, identity, and what it means to be human. Beyond art, her work has led her to television, where she finds herself a co-producer and sometime actor on Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning series, Transparent.

Below are Zackary Drucker’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually.